Progressive Era Terms Quiz MOD MHS

Progressivism (Progressive Era)-a response to the negative effects of industrialization. A time of change/reform that started because of overpopulation, big business, industrialization & political corruption.

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What was the Populist Party's platform:

• Coinage of silver, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

• Coinage of Gold, 16th amendment, regulation of railroad, & 17th amendment

Wrote “The Jungle”, resulting in the government regulating the safety of food products, FDA.

• Jane Addams

• Upton Sinclair

Established Settlement House movement to help assimilate immigrants.

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

Harvard-educated, studied Black urban culture, and was the first president of Tuskegee University, his “Atlanta Compromise” stressed Black self-improvement and accommodation with Whites.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights group that fought for the legal rights of African Americans.

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Initiate, Referendum, Recall; increased participation in democracy, made elected officials accountable.

• State Reforms

• State of the Union

Initiative

• Citizens vote to increase taxes for new programs

• Citizens can put an issue on a state ballot and vote to make it a law

Referendum

• Citizens can vote to remove an elected official

• Citizens vote to increase taxes for new programs

Recall

• Citizens can vote to remove an elected official

• Citizens vote to increase taxes for new programs